The former executive director of the Chelsea Housing Authority was sentenced in July after pleading guilty to four felonies in deliberately underreporting his burgeoning income to regulators in four years.

Conviction: Filing false reports and concealing his inflated salary from state and federal regulators

Castro was sentenced in August after pleading guilty to imprisoning three women in his home and subjecting them to years of rapes and beatings. He died in prison on Sept. 3, and police have concluded his death was a suicide.

Rossetti was once a powerful and feared captain of the New England Mafia and was sentenced in March for running a violent criminal enterprise.

Conviction: He pleaded guilty to usury and extortion and serves his sentence simultaneously with previous punishments for selling heroin and breaking and entering.

Sentence: 12 years in prison

Two of Rossetti’s alleged associates, Yasmani Quezada and Marc Brown, were sentenced in October after pleading guilty to a 2010 armed home invasion in Revere. Quezada was sentenced to 12 years and one day in state prison and Brown was sentenced to 10 to 12 years. Both will face three years of probation after release.
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Angela Spaccia was deputy to the former city manager of Bell in southern California. She was the seventh to be convicted in a corruption scandal where officials were found taking large salaries at the expense of residents.

Conviction: Guilty of 11 felony counts, including misappropriation of public funds and conflict of interest

Following a four-month trial that revealed lurid stories of a salacious relationship, Jodi Arias was convicted of murdering her one-time boyfriend in Arizona. She admitted to killing Travis Alexander in 2008 and said she acted in self-defense.

Conviction: First-degree murder

Sentence: The jury was unable to reach a verdict on a sentence and prosecutors are pursuing a penalty phase to get a death sentence. No new trial date is set.
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Spain corruption trial

Fifty-three people were convicted in Spain after a two-year trial involving former mayors and advisers in the city of Marbella. The scandal centered around a bribery scheme that saw more than $900 million in bribes paid out over years.

Conviction: Fraud and bribery

Sentences: Former mayro Marisol Yague (pictured) was sentenced to six years, and another former mayor to two years.
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Ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

In March, Kilpatrick, 43, was convicted of corruption. The government called it the ‘‘Kilpatrick enterprise,’’ a years-long scheme to shake down contractors and reward allies. Kilpatrick, who served as mayor of Detroit from 2002 until fall 2008, fattened his bank account by tens of thousands of dollars, traveled the country in private planes and even strong-armed his campaign fundraiser for stacks of cash hidden in her bra, according to evidence at trial.

The former Lawrence police officer, far left, had been on paid leave for about a year as he awaited trial on corruption charges. Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua said Lopez would be terminated from the department in October.

Conviction: Bribery, obstruction of justice, lying to a federal agent

Sentence: Lopez will be sentenced on Jan. 14 and faces up to 20 years for obstruction of justice, five years for lying to a federal agent and up to 10 years for bribery, according to The Eagle-Tribune.